INDEX OF BIRD FAMILIES

Click on your choice of Bird Family below,
to see which Species have been sighted in
the Timiskaming Area

• Red-throated Loon - RM
• Common Loon - CB
• Artic Loon - RM

• Pied-billed Grebe - CB
• Horned Grebe - R
• Red-necked Grebe - R
• Eared Grebe - V
• Western Grebe - V

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TUBE NOSES

• Northern Fulmar - V

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GANNETS, PELICANS, and CORMORANTS

• Double-crested Cormorant - RM

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HERONS, STORKS, and IBISES

• American Bittern - CB
• Least Bittern - V
• Great Blue Heron - CB

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VULTURES

• Turkey Vulture - V

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GEESE

• Greater White-fronted Goose - V
• Snow Goose - CM
• Canada Goose - CM
• Brant - CM

• Trumpeter Swan - V
• Tundra Swan - UM

• Wood Duck - CB
• Gadwall - RB
• American Wigeon - CB
• American Black Duck - CB
• Mallard - CB
• Blue-winged Teal - CB
• Northern Shoveler - UB
• Northern Pintail - CM
• Green-winged Teal - CB

• Canvasback - UM
• Redhead - RM
• Ring-necked Duck - CB
• Greater Scaup - UB
• Lesser Scaup - CB
• White-winged Scoter - CM
• Oldsquaw - CM
• Bufflehead - CM
• Common Goldeneye - CB
• Barrow's Goldeneye - RM
• Hooded Merganser - CB
• Common Merganser - CB
• Red-breasted Merganser - CB
• Ruddy Duck - UB

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HAWKS, EAGLES, and FALCONS

• Osprey - CB
• Bald Eagle - UM
• Northern Harrier - CB
• Sharp-shinned Hawk - RB
• Northern Goshawk - CB
• Red-shouldered Hawk - RB
• Broad-winged Hawk - V
• Red-tailed Hawk - CB
• Rough-legged Hawk - CB
• Golden Eagle - RM
• American Kestrel - CB
• Merlin - CB
• Peregrine Falcon - RB

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GROUSE and TURKEYS
Ruffed Grouse - CR Spruce Grouse UR

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RAILS

• Yellow Rail - RB
• Virginia Rail - RB
• Sora - CB
• Common Moorhen - V
• American Coot - CB

• Sandhill Crane - RB

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SHOREBIRDS

• Semipalmated Plover -CB
• Killdeer - CB
• Greater Yellowlegs - CM
• Lesser Yellowlegs - CM
• Solitary Sandpiper - UB
• Spotted Sandpiper - CB
• Upland Sandpiper - RB
• Hudsonian Godwit - VM
• Ruddy Turnstone - RM
• Least Sandpiper - CB
• Dunlin - CM
• Common Snipe - CB
• American Woodcock - CB
• Wilson's Phalarope - RM

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JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS, and SKIMMERS

• Bonaparte's Gull - CB
• Ring-billed Gull - CB
• Herring Gull - CB
• Great Black-backed Gull - RM
• Common Tern - CB
• Arctic Tern - R
• Black Tern - RB

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PIGEONS and DOVES

• Rock Dove - CR
• Mourning Dove - CR

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CUCKOOS and ANIS

• Black-billed Cuckoo - RB
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo - V

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OWLS

• Eastern Screech-Owl - RB
• Great Horned Owl - CR
• Snowy Owl - CW
• Northern Hawk Owl - UW
• Barred Owl - RB
• Great Gray Owl - RB
• Long-eared Owl - UB
• Short-eared Owl - CB
• Boreal Owl - RW

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GOATSUCKERS

• Common Nighthawk - CB
• Whip-poor-will - UB

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SWIFTS and HUMMINGBIRDS

• Chimney Swift - CB
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird - CB

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KINGFISHERS

• Belted Kingfisher - CB

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WOODPECKERS

• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - CB
• Downy Woodpecker - CR
• Hairy Woodpecker - CR
• Three-toed Woodpecker - UR
• Black-backed Woodpecker - UR
• Northern Flicker - CB
• Pileated Woodpecker - CR

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TYRANT FLYCATCHERS

• Olive-sided Flycatcher - CB
• Eastern Wood-Pewee - UB
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - CB
• Alder Flycatcher - CB
• Least Flycatcher - CB
• Eastern Phoebe - RB
• Great Crested Flycatcher - RB
• Eastern Kingbird - CB
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - V

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SHRIKES

• Northern Shrike - RR

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VIREOS

• Solitary Vireo - RB
• Warbling Vireo - RB
• Philadelphia Vireo - CB
• Red-eyed Vireo - CB

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JAYS, MAGPIES, and CROWS

• Gray Jay - CR
• Blue Jay - CR
• American Crow - CR
• Common Raven - CR

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LARKS, MARTINS, and SWALLOWS

• Horned Lark - CM
• Tree Swallow - CB
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow - RM
• Bank Swallow - CB
• Cliff Swallow - CB
• Barn Swallow - CB

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TITMICE, NUTHATCHES, and CREEPERS

• Black-capped Chickadee - CR
• Boreal Chickadee - RW
• Red-breasted Nuthatch - CR
• White-breasted Nuthatch - CR
• Brown Creeper - VB

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WRENS

• Carolina Wren - V
• House Wren - RB
• Winter Wren - UB

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KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS, THRUSHES, and MIMIDS

• Golden-crowned Kinglet - CB
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet - CB
• Eastern Bluebird - UB
• Veery - CB
• Gray-cheeked Thrush - RM
• Swainson's Thrush - CB
• Hermit Thrush - CB
• Wood Thrush - RB
• American Robin - CB
• Varied Thrush - V
• Gray Catbird - UB
• Northern Mockingbird - RB
• Brown Thrasher - UB

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STARLINGS, PIPITS, and WAXWINGS

• European Starling - CB
• American Pipit - CM
• Bohemian Waxwing - CW
• Cedar Waxwing - CB

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WOOD WARBLERS

• Tennessee Warbler - CB
• Nashville Warbler - CB
• Yellow Warbler - CB
• Chestnut-sided Warbler - CB
• Magnolia Warbler - CB
• Cape May Warbler - UB
• Black-throated Blue Warbler - RB
• Yellow-rumped Warbler - CB
• Black-throated Green Warbler - RB
• Blackburnian Warbler - * CB
• Pine Warbler - V
• Palm Warbler - CM
• Black-and-white Warbler - CB
• American Redstart - CB
• Ovenbird - CB
• Northern Waterthrush - UB
• Connecticut Warbler - RB
• Mourning Warbler - CB
• Common Yellowthroat - CB
• Wilson's Warbler - CM
• Canada Warbler - CM

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TANAGERS

• Scarlet Tanager - RB

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EMBERIZIDS

• Eastern Towhee - V
• American Tree Sparrow - CM
• Chipping Sparrow - CB
• Clay-colored Sparrow - VM
• Vesper Sparrow - UB
• Lark Sparrow - V
• Savannah Sparrow - CB
• Le Conte's Sparrow - RB
• Fox Sparrow - CM
• Song Sparrow - CB
• Lincoln's Sparrow - CB
• Swamp Sparrow - CB
• White-throated Sparrow - CB
• White-crowned Sparrow - CM
• Dark-eyed Junco - CR
• Lapland Longspur - CM
• Snow Bunting - CW

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CARDINALS & ALLIES

• Northern Cardinal - V
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak - CB
• Indigo Bunting - V
• Dickcissel - V

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BLACKBIRDS, MEADOWLARKS, and ORIOLES

• Bobolink - CB
• Red-winged Blackbird - CB
• Eastern Meadowlark - V
• Yellow-headed Blackbird - VM
• Rusty Blackbird - RB
• Brewer's Blackbird - CB
• Common Grackle - CB
• Brown-headed Cowbird - CB
• Baltimore Oriole - UB

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FINCHES

• Pine Grosbeak - CW
• Purple Finch - CB
• House Finch - V
• Red Crossbill - RW
• White-winged Crossbill - UW
• Common Redpoll - CW
• Hoary Redpoll - RW
• Pine Siskin - CR
• American Goldfinch - CR
• Evening Grosbeak -CR

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WEAVER FINCHES

• House Sparrow - CR

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This checklist is made available to you, though the efforts of Bruce Murphy. Please send any Rare Bird Reports to him as per contact information

Bruce Murphy RR#1 Cobalt, Ont. P0J 1C0 705 679 5030 birdboy@ntl.sympatico.ca